What were changes in historical knowledge based on new discoveries? Choose all answers that are correct. New information about the Trojan Wars came to light when the Iliad was deciphered for the first time in the late 1930s. When King Tut’s tomb was discovered undisturbed in the 1920s, we gained a greater understanding of the Egyptians’ belief in the afterlife. Historians know more about ancient Sumer today than historians did long ago because of archaeological digs over the last two centuries. With the discovery of Pompeii, we learned that life for the upper-class Romans offered comforts and pleasures.